Avraham Z. Cooper, MD 🩺

1/ Have you ever wondered why advanced renal disease often leads to often debilitating pruritis? Why would kidney failure lead someone to itch uncontrollably? #tweetorial https:...

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1/ In medical school, I remember being both fascinated and terrified by prion diseases. Familial fatal insomnia in particular struck a chord. Why would a neurodegenerative prion...

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1/☢️ Early on April 26, 1986, reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Northern Ukraine exploded, sending a radioactive plume into the atmosphere. Public health authori...

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1/THREAD Ever wonder how someone could survive a lightning strike? Let's learn how such an incredible feat is possible. #medtwitter #tweetorial https://t.co/lccQPLedsW

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1/ Why can multiple sclerosis symptoms worsen with heat exposure, something known as the Uhthoff phenomenon? This question is especially relevant in the era of record-breaking hea...

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1/THREAD Ever wonder why amphotericin B can cause severe infusion reactions, including chills/rigors + hypotension? These infusion reactions are so awful that it carries the nickn...

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1/THREAD Ever wonder why fluoroquinolones increase the risk of tendon rupture? It seems so random that a whole class of antibiotics could cause tendon injuries, but the risk is re...

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1/THREAD Why would adenosine, a purine nucleoside, be able to treat supraventricular tachycardias (SVT)? And why are its effects so short lived (e.g.

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1/🧵 Why is a ketogenic diet a potentially effective treatment for refractory epilepsy? There's something almost magical about the idea that a specific type of diet could reduce th...

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1/🧵 Ever wonder why tick bites can lead to a red meat allergy, including even anaphylaxis? The answer requires us to examine sugars, tick saliva, and an anti-cancer drug. #medtwi...

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1/ 🧵 Clostridioides difficile (C. Diff) colitis is exceedingly rare in infants, almost as if they're protected from it. But why would infants somehow be resistant to C. diff infec...

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1/🧵 Ever wonder why rheumatic heart disease almost always damages heart valves? And why is the mitral valve by far the most commonly affected? The answer involves a case of mist...

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